Re: Use of non-portable find options in Makefile.in

2014-03-04 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Ben Reser] I started this usage with r1421636. The purpose is to avoid length limitations on the argument list not spaces creating problems. We could change it to just: rm -rf subversion/tests/cmdline/svn-test-work/* Note also, if you _are_ worried about command line length limits,

Re: Use of non-portable find options in Makefile.in

2014-03-04 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Peter Samuelson] Note also, if you _are_ worried about command line length limits, it's easy to buy yourself a lot more breathing room: cd subversion/tests/cmdline/svn-test-work; rm -fr * Of course I meant in place of ; there. Much safer in case the dir itself may or may not exist.

Use of non-portable find options in Makefile.in

2014-03-03 Thread Philip Martin
I've been experimenting with a SPARC Solaris build recently and the non-portable use of find in Makefile.in is annoying, it means that the 'make clean' target fails. There are two uses of find some/path -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf -- Solaris find doesn't support

Re: Use of non-portable find options in Makefile.in

2014-03-03 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 05:34:22PM +, Philip Martin wrote: I've been experimenting with a SPARC Solaris build recently and the non-portable use of find in Makefile.in is annoying, it means that the 'make clean' target fails. There are two uses of find some/path -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1